This week my phone is throwing out a lot of photos of empty places from two years ago, as we were on the cusp of what we now know is called “lockdown” and then was called “quarantine”. Given current circumstances those
A beautifully poignant reflection. I am ordering "Stories from the City of God" and hope that I will have time to read it before my next visit. Your writing has me missing the Before Times and feeling quite homesick for a place that is not even my home!
I visited twice between the opening windows and the slamming doors of Covid before being trapped for nearly two months the last time. It was a beautiful if eerie prison with seemingly one inmate and I had the Vatican Museums & Sistine alone on their reopening. I'll never see the city in that privileged, if besieged, way again and I'm both glad I did and glad I shan't.
Pasolini's Theorum was a formative experience. He really was terrific and I'll find that book. Thank you.
A beautifully poignant reflection. I am ordering "Stories from the City of God" and hope that I will have time to read it before my next visit. Your writing has me missing the Before Times and feeling quite homesick for a place that is not even my home!
A great read! Thanks.
thank you!
I visited twice between the opening windows and the slamming doors of Covid before being trapped for nearly two months the last time. It was a beautiful if eerie prison with seemingly one inmate and I had the Vatican Museums & Sistine alone on their reopening. I'll never see the city in that privileged, if besieged, way again and I'm both glad I did and glad I shan't.
Pasolini's Theorum was a formative experience. He really was terrific and I'll find that book. Thank you.
So terrific, and thank you!